ptbpilot Posted March 4, 2009 Report Share Posted March 4, 2009 I want to enable Hard Drive Compression on my NTFS drives. I am running WinXP Pro. Before I do so, are there any known issues with EMC9 if it is enabled? Thanks in advance. Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 grandpabruce Posted March 4, 2009 Report Share Posted March 4, 2009 I want to enable Hard Drive Compression on my NTFS drives. I am running WinXP Pro. Before I do so, are there any known issues with EMC9 if it is enabled? Thanks in advance. Peter If you are running out of room, on your hard drives, you are better off getting a new, large hard drive, instead of compressing the ones you have now. I don't know the answer to your question, because the last hard drive, that I compressed, was about 15 years ago. It did not affect any of my DOS or Windows programs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Jim_Hardin Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Compression is a disaster in the waiting… Get another HD or do a brutal Spring cleaning that starts with, Format c:\ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 gi7omy Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Disk compression from the very early days of Drvspace and Dblspace has been a bit of a disaster. I recall back then finding out that if I used it, I had all sorts of problems, one being memory 'leaks' in that as the app was used for any length of time, it ran out of resources and hed to be shut down and the computer rebooted Also, running compression on a drive slows things down Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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I want to enable Hard Drive Compression on my NTFS drives. I am running WinXP Pro. Before I do so, are there any known issues with EMC9 if it is enabled?
Thanks in advance.
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